Gee Dee

The human in the loop. Sr Creative Tech & Innovation Manager, AI @ Amazon. @delhiero management team. Multi-medium creative and artist.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Boil the Oceans

You know the phrase: “don’t boil the ocean.” Everyone’s said it in some overly ambitious meeting. It’s good advice in normal times. It keeps teams focused. It prevents scope creep. But we are no longer in normal times, and I think it’s time to retire saying it.

Artificial Superintelligence means it’s time to boil the ocean. We’ll start with a few lakes first.

I was recently with a university endowment’s head of private investing who told me their engineers were terrified for their jobs after seeing what Claude Code could do. And I get it — that’s the natural first reaction. But it’s the wrong one. It’s a zero-sum reaction to a positive-sum moment.

Instead of worrying about doing the same thing we’ve been doing for cheaper, why not focus on doing the thing we never even dreamed of doing? Why can’t that endowment achieve 50% net IRR instead of 10%? Why can’t a startup deliver a service that is 100x better than the incumbent? Why can’t we have fusion energy? Why can’t we talk to every single user and have a perfect understanding of every bug in our product?

These aren’t rhetorical questions anymore. They’re engineering problems with paths to solutions.

Here is what I think is actually going on with the fear: our fear of the future is directly proportional to how small our ambitions are. If your plan is to keep doing exactly what you’re doing, then yes, a machine that can do it faster and cheaper is terrifying. But if your plan is to do something dramatically bigger, then the machine is the best news you’ve ever gotten.

If you’re a worker — someone who trades labor for a living — this is the moment to become a builder. Start a business. And if you’re already management or capital, it’s time to go 10x more hardcore on what your aspirations could be. Not eking out 5% efficiency gains. Not increasing profit margins 2% by lowering cost and firing people. Those are the old games. The new question is: what would it look like to build a product or service so good that people would happily pay 10x what they pay now?

The net result of this is more jobs, not fewer. As Ryan Petersen likes to say, the human desire for more things is absolutely limitless. We can actually fulfill that desire now — if we have the agency to prompt it for ourselves.

Buckminster Fuller coined the term “ephemeralization” in 1938: doing more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing. His entire vision of progress was about technology enabling radical expansion of human capability through dematerialization. He traced this from stone bridges to iron trusses to steel cables — each iteration stronger, longer, lighter, cheaper. He wasn’t describing job destruction. He was describing civilization getting better at being civilization.

This is Jevons Paradox for everything. When you make a resource dramatically more efficient, you don’t use less of it — you use vastly more. Steam engines didn’t reduce coal consumption. They made coal so useful that demand exploded. The same thing is about to happen with intelligence, with labor, with every service and product we can imagine.

But Jevons Paradox doesn’t activate on its own. It requires capital and management to actually raise their ambitions — to boil lakes and oceans instead of drowning them in committee

That’s what startups have always been good at: moving fast in the face of radical uncertainty, building for the 10x future while everyone else is optimizing for the 1.05x present.

Time to start.

[Brett Adcock @adcock_brett]

Another huge week of AI and robotics news.

So, I summarized everything from Google, Midjourney, Figure, Cover, OpenAI, 1X, MiniMax, Hexagon, Sunrise Robotics, Gecko Robotics, and more.

Here's everything you need to know and how to make sense out of it:

[Gee Dee @GalenDriver]

Big up dreamers, designers and shippers

[vitrupo @vitrupo]

Replit CEO Amjad Masad says AGI won't replace you—unless you’re a code monkey.

AGI is a remote worker. If you have one, you'll spin up 100 more to execute your ideas. But the person who understands what people want—who can dream, design, and ship—that role stays irreplaceable.

[Gee Dee @GalenDriver]

Playing @Google ‘s new Be Internet Awesome experience on @Roblox and continue to get penalized for telling friends I’m feeling upset. Training people (heavy youth audience on Roblox) it’s wrong to talk to friends about your feelings feels dangerous… ?

[Gee Dee @GalenDriver]

@AlicesAstroInfo @westseattleblog What time will be best?

[Gee Dee @GalenDriver]

Generating one image with AI uses the same amount of energy as charging your cellphone. With Hundreds of millions of people using AI tools, platforms and apps on a weekly basis, feels like something that should have a seat at the table.

[Gee Dee @GalenDriver]

It’s wild how big of a deal people made about the energy consumption of mining BTC/crypto on a mainstream scale, but you seemingly hear nothing about the energy consumption of AI.

[Linus ✦ Ekenstam @LinusEkenstam]

New era for the sports industry

It's time for folks to really start looking at how spatial computing will change sports for ever.

What used to cost millions and take weeks, can now happen in real-time and cost close to nothing.

🧵 A thread

[Victor Reyes @victoreyestudio]

Gm

Announcement! I just minted my first BTC asset.

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[Gee Dee @GalenDriver]

@pranaynigotiya Yup

[Balaji @balajis]

One more bank run and the true safe haven is locally stored digital currency. Thank god for Satoshi.

[CyberBrokers @CyberBrokers_]

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[Gee Dee @GalenDriver]

So if artists are signing away their catalogues to labels and funds, does that mean those people can then create new synthetic works with AI using their voice/likeness without licensing it from them?

[Gee Dee @GalenDriver]

Those days when your auto DCA happens to hit at a recent high 🫠

[Gee Dee @GalenDriver]

@CyberBrokers_ 🫡

[Gee Dee @GalenDriver]

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[Gee Dee @GalenDriver]

@straybits1 We have a deal?

[CyberBrokers @CyberBrokers_]

A single choice can change everything.

[90's kids 🛹 @90s_kids_club]

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[Gee Dee @GalenDriver]

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